African american Quote by Jake Tapper

My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare for dignity…

— Maya Wiley

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired…

— John Carter Cash

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

— Rosanna Arquette

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in…

— Justin Sane

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a…

— Larry Wilmore

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

— Larry Elder

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as…

— Janis Ian

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

— Stephen Pagliuca